The Guys, who are one of three families seeking to hold MIT responsible for a student’s on-campus death, sued MIT in August 2002, one day before the three-year statute of limitations would have expired.

MIT responded last Thursday to a subpoena from Paramount Pictures asking who was responsible for a computer at the Civil and Environmental Engineering headquarters that allegedly distributed an illegal copy of the film “Tupac: Resurrection” at 1:40 a.m. on Dec. 4.

At the time of this writing, my Athena account is already deactivated. This chronicle begins on November 4, 2003, the date I received notice of my account’s impending demise due to my recent graduation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The notice read: